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Nga Awa Purua Geothermal Power Station

Client Name: Mighty River Power

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Mighty River Power’s new Nga Awa Purua geothermal power station is its second geothermal development. The $430M geothermal power station has a capacity of 140MW and connects into Transpower’s existing 220kV transmission grid.
Nga Awa Purua houses the largest single shaft geothermal...

Arapuni Floor Strengthening

Client Name: Mighty River Power

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Constructed in the 1920’s and 30’s, Arapuni Power Station is a listed heritage building. The original transformers were single phase units each weighing approximately 15 tonne. In 1999 these transformers were replaced with 3 phase units with an in service weight of approximately 50...

Whakamaru Hydro Station Class 4 Upgrade

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Client Name: Mighty River Power

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The original Whakamaru power station was commissioned in the mid-50s and has operated continuously since. During this period the plant has never been subjected to a complete overhaul.
In 2010, Mighty River Power undertook a Class 4 overhaul of G1. Edison was retained to provide technical support...

New Geothermal Power Station for Kawerau

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Client Name: Mighty River Power

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Mighty River Power’s new Kawerau geothermal power station is fully operational ahead of time, under budget and capable of generating at a higher than expected capacity of 100MW.
The $300 million Kawerau project was the largest single geothermal development in New Zealand for more than 20...

Hydro Generator Transformer Replacement

Client Name: Mighty River Power

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Mighty River Power is undertaking a replacement programme of the power transformers at its hydro power stations throughout New Zealand. In 2009/2010 four 11/220kV transformers where replaced - three at Maraetai and one at Whakamaru power stations.
The existing transformers were single phase...

Consent Compliance

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As part of our inhouse consenting capability, we provide a service to independently monitor consent compliance for new and existing sites on behalf of our clients.
Consent holders, or operators, are legally obliged (under the Resource Management Act) to monitor their resource consents to ensure...